Attention Arkansas educators! Catch up on your professional development hours with the sixth annual ArkansasIDEAS Winter Professional Development Challenge. Professional development helps you reflect on your teaching practices, discover different classroom strategies and build new skills.
Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the fire inside is warm and cozy. Snuggle up with your blankets on the couch next to the fireplace, and enjoy some holiday programming. Take a trip to Poplar in 1969 with the cast of “Call the Midwife” for the holiday special, and listen to the reimagined and gospel-, jazz- and R&B-infused 18th-century masterpiece in “Too Hot to Handel – The Gospel Messiah.” Then, visit with Mary Berry and her friends as she cooks up delicious food that will make everyone in the family hungry in “Mary Berry’s Ultimate Christmas.”
Arkansas PBS is gearing up for the holidays with a full schedule of seasonal programs to help you celebrate from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve! We even made a handy holiday program schedule that you can save or print so you don’t miss a thing. A full list of Arkansas PBS programs, including PBS KIDS, can be found at myarpbs.org/schedule.
We are rapidly heading into the gift-giving season, and books are always a great gift for your friends and family who are readers! The PBS Books Readers Club is an amazing place for you to get information on books to give to those you love this holiday season – or to find something to read for yourself!
Favorite Books of the Year
Celebrate Military Family Appreciation Month alongside Arkansas PBS as we look into the stories of veterans past and present, and how they grapple with the emotions of war. Dig into how war impacted their families, and join in the Veterans Day celebrations.
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Members who contribute a tax-deductible gift of at least $5 per month, or an annual gift of $60 or more, are eligible for Arkansas PBS Passport – an extended, on-demand library of your favorite PBS shows, films and specials.
Celebrate alongside Arkansas PBS as we honor and observe Native American Heritage Month. Learn about modern indigenous culture in the United States, the natural symbolism that is prominent throughout Native American history and those who are continuing to make an impact in our nation.
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Celebrate alongside us at Arkansas PBS as we observe National Hispanic Heritage Month from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. Learn about the arts, culture, cuisine, famous figures and the landscape that shape these people with programs on Arkansas PBS Passport.
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Juneteenth is an annual commemoration, celebrated June 19, of the finality of slavery in the U.S. after the ending of the Civil War, which has been celebrated by African Americans since the late 1800s. Celebrate alongside us with programming commemorating the life of African Americans in the month of June.
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May is Military Appreciation Month – a time to honor and recognize the contributions and sacrifices of the men and women who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. Arkansas PBS Passport gives you a chance to honor and recognize those contributions as we hear conversations about life before, during and after action; explore wrecked vessels from World War II; and see the heartwarming, inspirational story of service dogs with Arkansas PBS Passport.
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Happy Voluntine’s Day!
No, that’s not a typo. At Arkansas PBS Foundation, we love our volunteers so much, we decided to celebrate Voluntine’s Day this year and share what you mean to us. Taking a cue from poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Let me count [just a few of] the ways.”
